提起社会调查,许多人并不陌生。不就是到社会中去了解情况,向有关的人们提出一些问题,再从他们的回答中得出结论吗?当我们翻开各种社会科学杂志,比如《社会学研究》、《人口研究》、《青年研究》、《中国社会科学》等等,经常可以读到有关各种问题的大篇社会调查报告;就是在一些非专业报刊上,甚至在许多通俗读物中,我们也能不时看到“对……的调查”这样的标题和字眼。 Many people are familiar with social surveys. It is not just getting to know the situation in society, asking some questions from the people concerned, and drawing conclusions from their answers. When we open various magazines in social sciences such as “Sociological Studies”, “Population Studies” “Youth Studies”, “China Social Science” and so on, we can often read large-scale social survey reports on various issues; even in some non-professional newspapers and even in many popular books, we can occasionally see “ The survey of ... ”such titles and words.